A mother has died after being repeatedly shot in her own home as her one-year-old child sat in a high chair just yards away.

The woman, who has yet to be named, called police to her apartment in north west Houston, Texas, following the shooting at 11am yesterday morning.

She was rushed to the city's Memorial Hermann Hospital but died three hours later.

Shooting: The woman, who has not yet been named, died after being repeatedly shot in her Houston home. Police are now looking for a 'suspicious' man seen in the apartment complex where she lived (pictured)

Investigation: Police say there were no signs of a break-in at the woman's home - which was found to be full of 'valuable property'

'She was shot more than once,' said Sgt Warren Meeler, of Houston Police Department's homicide division.